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Date Posted: 11:32:31 07/21/08 Mon
Author: Domino Lennon (Happy)
Subject: Re: Willie Bell Hamilton
In reply to: Domino Lennon 's message, "Willie Bell Hamilton" on 11:10:49 05/20/08 Tue

>Iam looking for information on my birth mother,whom I
>lived with,but was so secretive,I know next to nothing
>about her.She told me,her name was Willie
>Bell.Hamilton,that she was born in
>Jacksonville,Florida,to an Alberta Freeman,a
>full-blood,mixed-raced,American Indian woman,on an
>Indian reservation.But she wrote to
>jackson,Mississippi,for someone else's birth
>certificate and put her name on it.I found letters
>after she died,saying she was born in
>jackson,Mississippi,and she called her common-law
>husband her step-father.Her father,Amos Hamilton,she
>said was born in England,to an English father,and a
>Colored and Welsh mother..,but she wouldn't give me
>any birth dates for any one in her family,not even my
>older sister,Melinda merchant,by an affair with a
>Frank Merchant,a mixed-raced farmer from Buffalo,NY
>and brother,Charles Burrell.Flemings,Jr,by a sailor
>she first married and divorced.If any one knows about
>these people,please contact me with
>photos,letters,etc.i did see photos of my brother and
>grandmother,so I would know what they look
>like.also,my mother had a cousin,Doreen Hamilton,who
>was her uncle albert Hamilton's daughter.Heand Amos
>came to the US when they were kids,with their parents.

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